Use of DSP methods to measure and discriminate neutron and gamma-ray radiations (as Researcher during PhD level – Masaryk University)
The primary reaction producing neutron field and scattering reactions of neutrons with materials in the environment lead to the production of gamma-ray as a background radiation. It is often necessary to measure neutron radiation in mixed fields of high gamma-ray intensity. Using certain scintillators, the pulse shapes for these two radiations are different from each other but still extremely similar to each other making their detection a challenging task. Design and development of various novel methods based on digital signal processing algorithms to measure and discriminate neutrons and gamma-rays in a mixed radiation field were my responsibilities in this work.